Home Video: Here come the zombies

3:15 AM,
Sep. 18, 2013

This film image released by HBO shows Michael Douglas, left, as Liberace, and Matt Damon, as Scott Thorson in a scene from 'Behind the Candalabra,' a film being shown at the Cannes Film Festival. (AP Photo/HBO, Claudette Barius)

Written by

Todd Hill
CentralOhio.com

Gone are the days of barely ambulant zombies with no self-awareness. We live in a world today where zombies have become fast and whip-smart. If you applaud this change of events, then "World War Z" is the movie for you.

This summer's Brad Pitt zombie flick got slammed with the label of a troubled production after word of several re-shoots got out, and formally speaking, the film is definitely flawed. Many early scenes suffer from a wont of pacing, dialogue is frequently unintelligible, but once the story slows down long enough for the narrative to catch up, "World War Z" becomes riveting. Pitt, ...